Word: restaurateur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continues, townspeople chained in the Platonic cave of illusion begin "to break through to the heart of the dark mystery which was themselves." By the time Isaac has at last reported that Jasper is dead, a number of astonishing and preposterously pat character changes have taken place. A Greek restaurateur, sexually disturbed because his fat wife is not Jean Harlow, has begun to look upon her with fond normalcy. Jasper's half-illiterate old man, a skirt chaser and Homeric hell raiser in his bachelorhood, experiences a blinding illumination and begins to sound as if he had attended...
...restaurant bus boy in Houston, he started with the word "catchup," painfully taught himself to speak, read and write excellent English. Today, at 54, Felix Tijerina owns a chain of thriving Texas restaurants, is president of the nationwide League of United Latin American Citizens. But civic-minded Restaurateur Tijerina has not stopped there. In his spare time, busy as a platoon of pedagogues, he has launched an assault on the language barrier. By last week Tijerina had worked out a method that may spread among Spanish-speaking children throughout the nation...
Died. Alfred di Lelio, 77, Rome restaurateur known as "the King of Fettuccine," who-under a spotlight, with house lights dark and violins softly playing-mixed butter into the long noodles with a gold fork and spoon given to him by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, attracted food connoisseurs from all sides of the news, among them Hermann Göring, Dwight Eisenhower, Grace Kelly, Harry Truman, Heinrich Himmler, Princess Soraya, King Farouk, Pierre Laval; of a heart attack; in Rome. "There's a little trattoria on the Via della Scrofa where you get the best fettuccine...
Although some trails are still incomplete, Sugarbush night life is off to a running start, and New York restaurateur Ormando Orsini has already opened a nightspot for skiing roues...
Revue (which died of atrophy two years ago). In 1939 along came the Ice Capades, now the nation's largest, with two separate companies touring the U.S. (last year's gross: about $10 million). When Minneapolis Restaurateur Morris Chal-fen bought tiny Holiday Inc. in 1945, the Big Three had successfully tied up all major U.S. ice palaces...